Jordan Cash is an Assistant Professor in the James Madison College at Michigan State University. On November 15, 2022, only a week after the 2022 midterms, Donald Trump became the seventh president to seek election for a non-consecutive term. Because … Continue reading Can Trump Pull a Cleveland?
Gary Schmitt is a senior fellow in the Social, Cultural and Constitutional Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute. The headline finding of the January 6th committee’s report is the criminal referral of former President Donald Trump to the Justice … Continue reading Congress, the Vice President & Resolving Electoral College Disputes: A Note
Charles U. Zug is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Colorado – Colorado Springs Demagoguery is a concept that originated in classical antiquity, but the American constitutional system is, in its most important respects, rooted in a body of … Continue reading Demagogues in American Politics
David Lewis Schaefer, Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross America’s Constitution, by far the longest continuously operative one in the world, is under attack from both sides of the political spectrum. On the right, conservative Texas Republican … Continue reading Don’t Mess With Our Constitution
David Barulich writes on current political events and Constitutional Reform at TheUSRecon. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Federalist, Education Week, LA Daily News, and other publications covering politics, fiscal policy, immigration, and education. He resides in Pasadena, … Continue reading US Citizenship – Blood or Soil?
Jason Rosensweig is Director of Chicago for the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America, and a Commissioner on the Illinois Commission on Discrimination and Hate Crimes. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Bad law and bad lawyering … Continue reading Beware of Bad Lawyering
Joseph M. Knippenberg is Professor of Politics at Oglethorpe University in Brookhaven, Georgia. Review of Michael Berube and Jennifer Ruth, It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022. x + … Continue reading Reason and the Freedom of Speech
Randal Hendrickson is the host of PODOPTICON, a politics, history, & philosophy podcast. The Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank in southern California, came to prominence during the Trump years. Founded in 1979, the organization aims to deliver high-sounding lessons … Continue reading It’s Manly Man Summer at the Claremont Institute
Bernard J. Dobski, Jr. is a Professor of Political Science at Assumption University in Worcester, MA where he teaches classes on political philosophy, American foreign policy, and international relations. He has published on classical political philosophy, Shakespeare and is currently … Continue reading Can Demagoguery be Good Sometimes? A Republican Defense of Trump
Jeffrey Tyler Syck is a PhD candidate in the University of Virginia Department of Politics. There is nothing more American than freedom. The United States is the “land of the free” and her president is the “leader of the free … Continue reading Education As the Root of Freedom
